Green Crow Collective shares new single "Valse Mélancolique"

"Valse Mélancolique" is one of the key-tracks of Green Crow Collective's upcoming debut album, ‘Hard Drive Error’. It’s a feast of a song, with a groovy bassline, twisted drumbeat, sharp guitarriffs and feasty flute/violins. ‘Valse Mélancolique, c’est chique, c’est comique’. An ode to our loved ones who’ve come to pass over the past years. An ode to the joy they bring us every time something reminds us of them. It’s about losing yourself, and losing the pain of such a loss in a spaceless timeless vacuum. Like when magic happens on stage, when everything and everyone is connected in the exchange of energy. It’s about letting go, and trying to stay connected. Trying to dance the pain away. Happy, and sad at the same time, and you can’t control your face. C’est comique.

‘Qui parle de bonheur a souvent les jeux triste’ (Louis Aragon)

Our country has gained a mischievous ball orchestra, and Green Crow Collective is the name. The band around singer-guitarist Roeland Vandemoortele, who has been impressing audiences for several years, is coming out with "Hard Drive Error," a mercilessly groovy debut that will make you say dada.

Vandemoortele toured for ten years both domestically and internationally with the electro-punk duo Too Tangled, and since then has been involved in theater productions with artists such as Rick de Leeuw, Wim Opbrouck, and Otto-Jan Ham. His dream was a new, slightly obscure group capable of making a venue steam with lustful pleasure in no time – think Mano Negra, T.C. Matic, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and 16 Horsepower. He searched and found companions in the multi-instrumental violinist Andries Boone (Guido Belcanto, Mandolinman, Tijs Vanneste, also solo active), bassist Mathias Moors (Mr. Paul & The Lowriders, The Antler King), and drummer-actor-photographer-what-not Bert Huysentruyt (Gorki, Het Zesde Metaal). The kind of men one wonders: where do they find the time to start a band?

What they create, they call EuroDada. The music is based on Western rock, Eastern scales, and perhaps most importantly, Belgian surrealism. The new single "Valse Mélancolique" is neither melancholic nor waltzes. A bold wink, "Putain Putain" for crying out loud, to their great hero Arno.

"Hard Drive Error" by Green Crow Collective will be released on September 27th on V2 Records.